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Light earthquake, 4.3 mag strikes near Fuig in Puerto Rico

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A light earthquake with magnitude 4.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Tuesday, 2 kilometers (1 miles) from Fuig in Puerto Rico. Exact location, longitude -67.0203° West, latitude 17.9331° North, depth = 6 km. The temblor was detected at 10:48:08 / 10:48 am (local time epicenter). Exact time and date of earthquake 14/01/20 / 2020-01-14 14:48:08 / January 14, 2020 @ 2:48 pm UTC/GMT. Unique identifier: pr2020014012. Ids that are associated to the event: pt20014006, us70006zmj, pr2020014012. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter of the earthquake was roughly 6 km (4 miles) below the earth’s surface.

Nearest cities/city/towns to hypocenter/epicentrum was Cayey, Naranjito, Ceiba (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 44 km (27 miles) from Ponce (c. 152 600 pop), 32 km (20 miles) from Mayagüez (c. 78 600 pop), 68 km (42 miles) from Arecibo (c. 49 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Vega Baja (c. 29 300 pop), 77 km (48 miles) from Barceloneta (c. 22 300 pop), 21 km (13 miles) from Yauco (c. 20 300 pop). Close country/countries, Puerto Rico (c. 3 917 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. In the past 24 hours, there have been thirty-five, in the last 10 days three hundred and thirty-six, in the past 30 days four hundred and six and in the last 365 days four hundred and ninety earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year.

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What was your situation during the earthquake? Leave a comment or report about damage, shaking and activity at your home, city and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 2 km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	4.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-67.0203° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	17.9331° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	6 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	2km W of Fuig, Puerto Rico	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2020-01-14 14:48:08	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2020-01-14 15:28:21	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-240	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	36	The total number of felt reports
CDI	5.3	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	304	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	pr	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,pt,us,pr,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	15	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.0435	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	234	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	ml	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	pr2020014012	Id of event.
Event Code	2020014012	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,pt20014006,us70006zmj,pr2020014012,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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